Importance of Pharmacy

ETHICS AND VALUES IN PHARMACY: PROFESSION, INDUSTRY AND EDUCATION



AUTHOR: MANORANJAN THUNUGUNTLA iv B-PHARMACY

DON BOSCO COLLEGE OF PHARMACY, GUNTUR

E-mail: manozph@gmail.com

Mobile No. : +9192 9730 7567

      Preparing for Hospital an Agent to Reduce, Minimize and Any Curing to Yield lost health of the person (patient).

      Pharmacy plays a major role in the health services. Health care system rotates between triple ‘P’ (P-P-P). Where the First ‘P’ stands for Physician (Doctor), the Second ‘P’ stands for Pharmacist and the Third ‘P’ stands for Patient (i.e., Person suffering from a disease or disorder).

      Pharmacist is the link between the Physician and the patient, because Physician just prescribes the medicine to the patient according to his disease or disorder to treat it. But patient have no knowledge about how to dispense (take) medicine. Here the pharmacist plays his role by minimizing the communication gap between the Physician and the patient. Pharmacist only maintains the pharmacy which consists of medicines for patients. Pharmacist staying in pharmacy should have the minimum eligibility of Diploma in Pharmacy study of about 2 years of written exams and minimum of 500 hours of apprentice of dispensing of medicines to patients in the health care centre. It should posses maximum departments of health professionals (doctors) to get knowledge of drug usage. Also he should have a recognized registered pharmacy certificate from the State Pharmacy Council. Before working in the outside pharmacy he should take permission from the drug controller of that district.

      In some years ago there is no availability of pre-manufactured of medicine i.e. capsules, tablets, syrups, ointments, etc. type of formulations. These formulations should be prepared by the pharmacist according to the prescription written by the Physician to the Patient.

      In those days the pharmacist has the knowledge about weighing, mixing, formulating, etc. steps to...